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SUMMARY:How do young Canadians understand (their) privilege and (others') 
 poverty in the context of an international volunteer experience? - Kaylan 
 Schwartz\, Faculty of Education\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20130612T120000Z
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CONTACT:Ting Ding
DESCRIPTION:I seek to investigate how a group of Canadian secondary school
  students understand their identities in the context of a short-term inter
 national volunteering experience in Kenya\, South Africa and Uganda. Throu
 gh narrative inquiry - including semi-structured interviews and photo-elic
 itation - this qualitative study explores how six similarly-situated youth
  (all identified as white\, female and residents of Toronto) make meaning 
 of their social locations while travelling within an unfamiliar context ov
 erseas. In particular\, I will explore the ways in which participants' und
 erstandings of their social locations challenged and/or shifted through th
 e experience of being in an unfamiliar context\, as well as how participan
 ts understand\, take up\, or resist notions of their own privilege. Initia
 l findings suggest that participants' encounters with poverty were seen as
  threatening\, and participants negotiated this anxiety by reframing impov
 erished communities as 'poor but happy'. These narratives provide a glimps
 e into the defensive processes that are utilised when young people holding
  majority social positions face uncomfortable situations or\nconflicts wit
 hin the self.\n
LOCATION:Room 2S3\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 
 Hills Road\, Cambridge
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